1.   Around the world, the largest tobacco companies are selling billions of dollars of cigarettes each year into contraband pipelines, say law-enforcement officials.

2.   A number of telecommunications and media companies already sold billions of dollars of this type of debt in recent months to help fund fledgling businesses.

3.   Both chains not only have sold billions of dollars of Donald Duck key chains and Daffy Duck boxer shorts.

4.   Coca-Cola sells billions of dollars of soft-drink concentrate each year to Coca-Cola Enterprises.

5.   Elbin envisions the Softspikes-MacNeil combine will soon be producing and selling billions of them.

6.   Federal and state regulators are investigating whether securities firms have sold billions of dollars of misleading CDs.

7.   Iselin, who bought British Biotech after positive clinical trial results were disclosed at a May oncology conference, said the company could sell billions of dollars of drugs.

8.   Like Wal-Mart, Target and other discount leaders, Kmart sells billions of dollars of Chinese-manufactured consumer goods each year.

9.   New York City sells billions of dollars in bonds each quarter to finance capital improvements and refinance outstanding debt.

10.   Pepsi rolled out related ads and sold billions of cans decorated with Star Wars characters like Anakin Skywalker.